Improvement in blacking-brushes



UNITED STATES GEORGE R. OWEN, OF UTIOA, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BLACKING-BRUSHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 120,663, dated November 7, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE R. OWEN, of the city7 of Utica, in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe-Blacking Brushes, of which the following is a specification:

The nature of this invention consists in certain novelties of construction and arrangement of the brush and its handle, which will be generally explained in the following description and speciically pointed out in the claims.

Figure l represents a view of the brush and handle ready for use. Fig. 2 represents the same when folded together, with the blacking-box in position between the brush and handle, each iigure being in perspective.

A is the polishing-brush, with f,` the small brush for applying the blacking, attached in the ordinary manner. c is the handle. The screw d passes down through the handle into the brush, allowing the handle to turn on the brush. This screw also holds down upon the handle the spring e, which operates the small bolt i. This bolt t',

as the handle swings, drops into a hole in the back of the brush and holds the handle in place until the spring is raised. The hole isrepresented by dotted lines, as also the bolt Upon the back of the brush are two pegs or projections, gg, by which the box is held from sliding sidewise.

I claiml. The combination of the movable handle c with the spring d and bolt c', and the brush a., as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth.

2. The blacking-brush a, with the additional brush fand studs g g, in combination with the folding handle, which, when turned back upon the brush, prevents displacement of the blaeking-box, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two sub- R. H. DUELL. (22) 

